Posted
by
samzenpus
on Monday April 01, 2013 @05:04PM
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today marks the inaugural 'Take Your Computer to Work Day'. First conceived by security researchers Michael Gough and Ian Robertson (the Thoughtful Hackers), this day has exploded in popularity and has now become a world-wide phenomenon. Says Mr. Robertson of its introduction, 'We always hear stories of how much productivity people gain by using their own mobile phones and tablets at work – by some studies, as much as 110%. We thought, wow, that is so smart and has absolutely no downsides. The next logical extension of that is to offer all our workers to bring in any of their computers, so we did.' 'The results were absolutely astonishing', said Mr. Gough. 'We were seeing user productivity up at least 0.5 times with Commodore 64's alone. Our database searches got faster with home-built white-box servers, and our janitorial staff was able to clean the restrooms twice as fast thanks to their TRS-80's.'"

Agreed. Eat many D's,/.One post like this would have been, at best, mildly amusing. All day long? Annoying and totally un-funny. Asking the same people why the chicken crossed the road 25 times is asking for a punch in the face, not generating laughs.

No kidding, An April Fools joke should happen once and be done with (otherwise, the joke just becomes an annoying pain in the ass such as Slashdot today). The ROT13? Do it once, have a "ha ha" and be done with it.

The other option, if you'd like to have something all day, is don't make it shoved into the users face. Do like google with the Doodle or map option, or like Proctor-Gamble with the Bacon Flavored Scope.. it's not their whole damn page.

I have never understood why some people dislike jokes. Just because they're not necessarily works of genius, or even outright bad, that is no reason for all this hatred. If you don't like the joke you can just move on. One day a year, I'm sure you can bear it.

I think the best part of the joke is seeing people like you whine "It's NOT FUNNY!!!111" ALL. DAY. LONG.

It's sort of like when Ubuntu showed up. It went a long way in separating the true Debianistas from the rest of the flotsam and jetsam. Hopefully, a lot of the whiners here will leave and never come back, and/. will experience a golden age of tech relevant news and discussions.

Other than not acceding to your implication that Debian is the One True Distro*, I'm with ya, good buddy.

I didn't mean to imply that. I used Slackware for years and from time to time, still do. I've always been attracted to OpenBSD as well. Debian is pretty slick though (once you wrap your head around its oddities).

This is your worst April Fools joke ever. Not only isn't it funny, it has made Slashdot entirely unusable. In the past at least once you saw the joke there was a way to "turn it off" and get the normal site. I hope you enjoy all the reduced ad revenue and lost page views today. Was it worth it? This is almost enough to make me consider not returning.